Enjoying Power

Enjoying Power
Author: Eudine Barriteau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Presents a fascinating range of studies on the political life of one one of the Caribbean's most imposing leaders of the twetieth century.

Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis
Author: Paul J. Erriah
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 1608449599

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Quotes from this Book Spain brought nothing to the New World except the horse and Roman Catholicism.... The French wished to expand; the Spanish wished to hold on to everything they could; the Dutch wished to be left alone; the English planters wished to make money, at whose expense was irrelevant; and the English Government also wished to make money at the expense of the English planters in a chain of exploitation irrespective of place and people. ....Thus, the only way in which whites can protect their economic power is to accommodate to black political power which means the weakening of social distinctions associated with race. ....Its general, the Garveyite Africanist orientation did not sufficiently appreciate that it was impossible to restore a racial and tribal community and continuity violently broken for more than two hundred years. ....Jamaican Democratic Socialism and Guyanese Cooperative Socialism can be directly traced to the appeal to the trade unions for mass support....Party politics ante-dated organized unionism in Trinidad, thus Eric Williams' collective nationalism. ....Barbadian conservatism can be traced to its apparent socio-psychological difference from the other states of the area. ....The economy of the country floundered, and the country remained in tact by massive foreign borrowing from willing lenders.... There also seems to be a creeping social and moral malaise in the country. ..".we obviously will have to find some means whereby the problem of trade in the world is made the subject of political management by agreement." .... The intellectuals of the Caribbean are at arms with frustrations due to the lack of vision of their governments in implementing meaningful and cohesive policies for the national good. ....Even the concept of MDCs and LDCs is being questioned.... Conflict also exists between CARICOM states with different natural resource endowments like oil and gas rich Trinidad and Tobago and the Windward Islands over the banana issue. .... The question that must be asked is: Is CARICOM running behind the metaphoric bus? ....The Commonwealth Caribbean States should individually and collectively forge economic relations with Brazil in the vast area of the manufacturing of parts for various goods especially in light manufacturing.

Dependency Under Challenge

Dependency Under Challenge
Author: Anthony Payne
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1984
Genre: Caribbean Area
ISBN: 9780719009709

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Articles on development theory and the economic policy of dependence in the Commonwealth Caribbean - examines political developments in Jamaica (democratic socialism), Trinidad and Tobago (oil capitalism), Guyana, (cooperative socialism), and Grenada (the New Jewel Revolution); discusses regional level economic integration, industrial planning and CARICOM; studies international relations with USA, UK, EC, and Latin America; and the role of the Commonwealth Caribbean in a New International Economic Order. Map.

Introduction to Caribbean Politics

Introduction to Caribbean Politics
Author: Cynthia Barrow-Giles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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An introductory text for students of Caribbean Politics. It provides a broad historical sweep from the slave era to the contemporary period, characterised by issues of structural adjustments and globalisation, and in between, the years of worker revolt and protest. The text is structured and presented around a number of core concepts used to analyse Caribbean politics and political systems.

Caribbean Labor and Politics

Caribbean Labor and Politics
Author: Perry Mars
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814332115

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Having more in common than their deaths on the same day in 1997, the late Cheddi Jagan of Guyana and Michael Manley of Jamaica both represented a radical perspective in modern Caribbean politics. Jagan and Manley each had a bold and creative ability to connect labor and politics and made it their priority to minimize poverty and inequality and to enhance the welfare of the Caribbean's disadvantaged and dispossessed. Caribbean Labor and Politics looks closely at the legacies of Jagan and Manley and their ramifications for the political and economic struggles of the Caribbean region and the world. This edited volume brings together a variety of studies on the lives, works, and intellectual and practical contributions of these two stalwart political leaders. The chapters focus primarily on Jagan's and Manley's years as heads of state of their respective countries and also encapsulate their pre-political years-mainly their growing-up experiences and their organizational work in the labor movement. The core contributions of these men are characterized in terms of their pivotal struggles towards the realization of what we term the "working class project."

Caribbean Charisma

Caribbean Charisma
Author: Anton Allahar
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001
Genre: Charisma (Personality trait)
ISBN: 9789766370268

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"In the early days of political decolonisation (1960s), the climate of Caribbean politics was charged with a sense of national euphoria premised on the promise of liberation from colonial instruction. Seizing the moment and the favourable political mood, compelling public figures such as Fidel Castro, Michael Manley, Forbes Burnham, Cheddi Jagan, Eric Williams, Errol Barrow, Eric Gairy and Maurice Bishop, all to varying degrees, and in their own unique styles, exploited a perceived charismatic endowment, which was woven into the populist politics of the time. In the process, they experimented with the ideas of empowerment and self-determination with a view to winning and cementing the loyalties of their followers. Caribbean Charisma, employing Marx Weber s treatment of the bases of political legitimacy (charismatic, traditional and rational-legal), assesses the degree to which the concept of charisma is relevant to an appreciation of the political triumphs and successes o the leaders in question, and examine how these modern leader were able to utilise their charismatic qualities in pursuit of specific ends. "